1901.] 



AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 



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spinnerets short, stout and tapering; first joint longest, third quite 

 short and hemispherical. 

 Type, Maoriana denihji. 



Maoriana dexdti, n. sp. (Text-fig. 25.) 



Cephalothorax, mandibles, legs, and palpi bright yellow-brown, 

 with a few pale yellowish hairs on the cephalothorax, trochanter, 

 and femur, darkening into brown and thicker on the remainder 

 of the leg. Two longitudinal belts of yellowish-brown bristles on 

 the face of the falx are separated by bare spaces. The teeth of 

 the rastellum are black. The sternum, coxa?, lip, and maxillae are 

 dull '^ange, furnished with brown bristles springing from round 



Text-fig. 25. 



Maoriana demhji. a. Eyes. h. Profife (nat. size). 

 c. Lip and sternum, showing sigilhe. 



roots ; the fringes are pinkish yellow. The fangs dark red, almost 

 black at base. The abdomen is black above with yellow spots in 

 transverse bands ; underneath black irregularly mottled with 

 yellow. Spinnerets, gill-covers, and anterior section above genital 

 aperture yellow-brown ; a few long thin Bpinee <>n both upper and 

 under side of abdomen, and shorl yellow hairs. 



The thoracic part of the cephalothorax i> flat, rounded at - 

 and narrowed at rear ; the oephalio pari riiee rather abruptly from 



